Quotationfrom European Vegetarian, Issue 1/2000 |
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"I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing; but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth." "It has become appalling obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." "I claim that even now, though the social structure is not based on a conscious acceptance of non-violence, all the world, even mankind, lives and men retain their possessions, on the sufferance of one another.
If they had not done so, only the fewest and most ferocious would have survived. But such is not the case. Families are bound together by ties of love and so are groups in the so-called civilised society called nations. Only they do not recognise the supremacy of the law of non-violence." |